Good evening dearies,

I hope your weekend was a super wonderful one, around here at studio Sakura...

I have been very busy indeed.

I finished a new original painting for the next shop update,(which will be sometime by he end of next week) one very kawaii mushroom (in all my inspriednessfrom the front page mushroom activity)-this mushroom is a sweet whimsical fly argic, all bright red with a skirt and spots...after my very heart, i tell you, it took me the better part of a days work too, but its just the kind of work I adore; plenty of hand stitching, felt and designing.

Then there's that tree embroidery piece I mentioned earlier..it is moving along..these things take time, and i never rush them, for it is the feeling of which i have while creating them, that will show through in the final piece. I am after a certain aesthetic that will never come about in any hurry.

I have a bunch of little extra new things I've been creating for the update that are right up my alley..

delicate

feminine

very unique

These days I seem to carry around a bundle of new project ideas with me for inspiration.

right now on my table alongside a now cold cup of green tea, are:

~turquoise calico patches

~a light yellow eyelet gingham(yes both on the same piece of fabric)

~ random scraps of a pink flower fabric that my daughter made the most adorable little hand sewn sweetlings out of when she was 5-6, and I cherish the few pieces left of that fabric.

~a blank small oval embroidery hoop, stretched tight with embroidery fabric...ready for something??

~my notebook where a plethora of sketches, words that make me wander, & many to do lists, that always seem to be overlooked

What wonderful and simple days I live, my children constantly surround me - and their inquisitive questions and random bursts of giggles and roughhousing ensue, while I am constantly creating.

These are the Best of Days~

and in other swell news...

I have discovered to my jolly surprise that I have two more pieces in two separate new treasuries today thru tomorrow. the first made front page ..^_^

powder...blue

curated by:lilldybug

my four little flowers, embroidery piece was featured

thank you lilldybug :)

you can view her calm treasury here..

&

GREEN tea

curated by:shecological

my original Painting, the tea pickers of Shizuoka is featured

thank you shecological :)

you can view her green treasury here...

To celebrate Green Tea in all its wonderful glory, I would love to give all of you a special gift certificate coupon for 10% off any of our premium imported Japanese green teas,

at our specialty shop

Sushi & Japanese Market

Here is a direct link to the Japanese Green Tea Category

just enter code:etsytea, and your good to go!

Well I'm off to sew, sew and start the first of a few new sweetlings for the shop update next week~I hope your night and morrow is filled with flowers, love, smiles and serenity...xoxo georgia

Camellia Sinensis
Camellia sinensis is the tea plant, the plant species whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea. It is of the genus Camellia (Chinese: 茶花; pinyin: Cháhuā), a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. White tea, green tea, oolong and black tea are all harvested from this species, but are processed differently to attain different levels of oxidation.

Whew!! The last two days have been a blur of thread, papers(wonderful hand made papers) colors purple, olive green, black, turquoise, brown...beads, felt, birds, laughter, music and really good food.I have been busy with my hands again, making a few new sweetlings for my shop update tomorrow, I have had much fun and serenity making them, I hope they find a new home where they will be as loved as much as I poured my own love into making them, does that make sense?...I must apologize in advance, for it is growing late, and my eyes are blurry from staring at row after row of the littlest perfect stitches, all day...:)

These days are quite lovely indeed~

I think I will begin to share with you my favorite teas that I am drinking, once and a while...I am in the paused stage of building my Tea shop, I am hand coding it, or shall I say was, hand coding, until I was bitten by the etsy bug.But lo one day soon I will resume ..oh you pushed aside tea shop...But anyway, I have been so very fortunate and appropriately so, tasting teas from a plethora of wonderful tea companies, for the last few months, so boy do I have some favorite teas!Ok, so for the last few days, I have been consuming the most wonderful Japanese Green Teas, especially their Seneca, from a family owned, grower, named SA, I have been meaning to list it for sale at Sushi & Japanese Market..(that etsy bug again) but if any of you would like to purchase some and become hopelessly addicted, as I have, let me know and I will actually do something non etsy and list their teas at Sushi & Japanese Market for you.^_^Well I could keep going, as you probably could start to tell, I can be quite a chatterbox, sometimes ;0

But as my hands and eyes are beginning to tingle from overuse, I must call it a night and go byebye...But I will be up bright and early (ok, in reality as late as I possibly can) to take photos and list the new sweetlings in the Sakura etsy shop, so do drop in and take a peek won't you?Good Night You.gs